Injury

Across the globe each year, nearly 55 million people suffer an eye injury. Roughly half of those will permanently lead to a reduction in vision, and almost a million will be hospitalized.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, Ashvin Agarwal, MS, gives advice on how to effectively treat difficult cases of trauma and injury in ocular surgery.

Most patients with mild traumatic brain injury and a negative CT scan experience incomplete recovery and should undergo a follow-up exam 2 weeks after injury to improve rehabilitation, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Traumatic brain injuries are not well characterized in the medical literature and are poorly understood by most health care professionals.

Optimal ergonomics plays a critical role in preventing endoscopy-related injury by enhancing safety in practice and, thus, extending career lifespans.

The FDA has designated Applied Medical’s recall of three latex balloon catheters as a class 1 recall, the most serious kind.

Recurrent aggressive behavior with clinically significant consequences to those who demonstrate it and those around them is common among both adolescents and adults, according to results of a survey study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. However, researchers noted that most aggressive individuals do not receive treatment for their behavior.

More than 30% of civilian-related injury survivors who are treated in EDs exhibited moderate-to-severe PTSD symptoms during the first year after the initial incident, according to study results published in Psychological Medicine.

KOLOA, Hawaii — A speaker at Orthopedics Today Hawaii said there is a need for a validated, rapid, objective, diagnostic test to better diagnose concussions, especially in youth athletes.

Tibial shaft fractures have an incidence of 16.9 per 100,000 people per year. Men aged 10 to 20 years tend to sustain these fractures, whereas women aged 20 to 30 years tend to sustain these injuries. The mechanisms of injury include low-energy twisting injuries or high-energy trauma which portend a high risk of associated soft tissue injury due to the subcutaneous location of the tibia. Treatment options are largely dictated by integrity of the soft tissue envelope and location of the fracture.